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<h2>An Introduction to Dust</h2>

<p>For the purpose of this project, 'dust' is information that is
stored according to the data that it contains.</p>

<p>The 'dust' program takes suitably formatted webpages and converts
them into persistant publishable pages. These pages can be still read
like and ordinary websites, and contain exactly the same information,
but all links are converted to hashes.</p>

<p>The documentation loses some flexibility in a manner similar to the
way that that printed documents are, once they have been printed.  The
document cannot be changed without invalidating the hashed links that
bind it together.</p>

<h2>How it works</h2>

<p>Dust is based around the idea of an "object store" which archives
data files under the hash of their content. To access an object, just
use the above URL with the hash appended to the end.</p>

<p><center><pre>http://&lt;hostname&gt;/dust/&lt;SHA1-hash&gt;</pre>
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<p>It is also possible to use pre-defined references or tags to
access objects symbolically.</p>

<p><center><pre>http://&lt;hostname&gt;/dust/&lt;tag&gt;</pre>
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<p>This documentation can be found online at
<a href="http://projects.mawsonlakes.org/projects/dust">http://projects.mawsonlakes.org/projects/dust</a></p>

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